After a lovely Christmas in Slough with Chris’s family, we headed toward Brighton, which is where we used to live. The traffic was quite intense, as is typical anywhere even remotely close to London. It took us nearly two and a half…
A HiJenx Christmas
We have done all of our Christmases now. We did one in Wisconsin before we left with my parents, sister and brother-in-law, which was similar to part of what we did the other years we went to the US. We…
Driving on the Left
After 9 months and over 20,000 miles of driving on the right, Chris got into a car and drove on the left. Have a look at the video to see how it went:
Travelling to England
We’ve gone back to Britain to visit for Christmas. It will only be my second UK Christmas and Chris’s first one in a while, so we really looking forward to it. Here is a short video of our journey from…
The Best of Our HiJenx Journey / And the Winner is…
The best beach of the journey was easily Panama City Beach, Florida: The best sunset was in Albuquerque, New Mexico: The best drive of the trip is a three way tie between driving down the Florida Keys: Driving down Florida’s Atlantic Coast from…
LoJenx of the Journey
Naturally, the trip wasn’t all roses. This is the worst of the trip, things that have stuck with us as negatives. The worst driving still goes to Indiana. Even though Boston, the Bronx and California were challenging, as were most…
Top 5 Best U.S. States
Here is the video of our top five states: 5) South Carolina South Carolina is beautiful, especially the coastal areas. It has the beautiful, successful city of Charleston. We learned that the city are actively courting tech companies, which makes it…
Top 5 Worst U.S. States
Now that we have given our views on all of the regions, we are going to compare the states in a much more absolute way, looking at the country as a whole. We are not going to give our full list…
Journey Surprises Part 2
Here’s the video: The US is a very religiously diverse country, so maybe we should have been expecting cowboys to have their own church, but this was still a big surprise to us both: European style basilicas in the middle of…
Journey Surprises Part 1
Here’s the video: The sculpture park in South Dakota was still one of the oddest and definitely most surprising experiences. It ties in with the more general unexpectedness of all the roadside things people have built in this country. Even…